2015 Tour de Suisse Stage 2 Risch-Rotkreuz - Risch-Rotkreuz

[lemon cheese cake]

The stage:

The profile:

The GC before the start:
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:05:41
2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek Factory Racing 0:00:02
3 Matthias Brandle (Aut) IAM Cycling 0:00:04
4 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:00:05
5 Steve Morabito (Swi) FDJ.fr
6 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team
7 Cameron Meyer (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 0:00:06
8 Ion Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team
9 Adriano Malori (Ita) Movistar Team
10 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:07
11 Michael Matthews (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 0:00:08
12 Martin Elmiger (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:00:09
13 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team
14 Jerome Coppel (Fra) IAM Cycling
15 Bob Jungels (Lux) Trek Factory Racing
16 Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica GreenEdge
17 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:10
18 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Etixx - Quick-Step
19 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin
20 Benjamin King (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team

Team Comp:
152 Silvan Dillier (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:01:22
Team classification
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 IAM Cycling 0:17:25
2 Movistar Team
3 Orica GreenEdge 0:00:01
4 BMC Racing Team 0:00:03
5 Team Giant-Alpecin
6 Trek Factory Racing 0:00:06
7 Tinkoff-Saxo 0:00:10
8 Team Sky 0:00:14
9 Etixx - Quick-Step 0:00:16
10 FDJ.fr
11 Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:21
12 Astana Pro Team 0:00:25
13 Lotto Soudal
14 Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
15 AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:28
16 Team Katusha 0:00:30
17 Wanty - Groupe Gobert 0:00:33
18 CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:01:00
19 Lampre-Merida 0:01:06

Withdrawals:
None

 

[rm7]

Any info on the climbs?

 

[BigMac]

Netserk bets on Sagan, Cance > The Rest bets on, well sort of obvious who, with some miraculous attack, I go with GVA.

 

[Alpechraxler]

Re: 2015 Tour de Suisse Stage 2 Risch-Rotkreuz - Risch-Rotkr

Climbs 2 x +-300 m altitude change with max 5 %. then its 2 x 3.5 k with an average of 8-10 %. On hot days the last climb is really exposed to the sun and the lower slopes are like 12 %, so perfect for a brisk pace to force some selection. The downhill is super fast in the middle section. I wouldn't be surprised to see some 100 km/h plus numbers on strava.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Anybody but Sagan plzkthx.

 

[TMP402]

Henao and Thomas to attack but be caught 1km from the end.

 

[Jspear]

This could potentially be a good stage. Hopefully they race it hard.
Albasini for the win.

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Re: 2015 Tour de Suisse Stage 2 Risch-Rotkreuz - Risch-Rotkr

Michaelskreuz is 3,8km at 9%. That's 1 km too long for Sagan.

But it depends how they will ride it. If there'll be a group of 20 riders at the summit then Sagan will be there.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

how is the descent?

 

[DBotero]

Re:

Henao and Thomas to attack but be caught 1km from the end.

One of them should attack,looks like a good stage for them.If not i suppose Albasini is ready for this.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Re:

Any info on the climbs?

No sorry.

 

[DBotero]

Re:

Any info on the climbs?

2xDorfstrasse 5.4 km at 4,8%
2xMichaelskreuz 4km at 8,9%

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

how is the descent?

Pretty easy, it could be a very fast descent but it's not a hard technical descent.

 

[Gigs_98]

Re: 2015 Tour de Suisse Stage 2 Risch-Rotkreuz - Risch-Rotkr

I predicted Kwiatkovski but after yesterday I don't think he will make it. Albasini ftw
And to the question how hard michaelskreuz is:
http://www.quaeldich.de/paesse/michaelskreuz/

 

[Anderis]

Re: 2015 Tour de Suisse Stage 2 Risch-Rotkreuz - Risch-Rotkr

I think this stage can be anything between a sprint from a 50-men group to GC contenders reaching the line in small groups with some important gaps in GC made. I think the best climber in the race can take this if the last two climbs are raced hard. But that would probably demand some early attacks from important riders, since I can't see any teams with enough climbing strength to make a carnage here.

 

[Bushman]

Sagan should be the favourite, but he will probably be second somehow. GVA to win

 

[manafana]

this is really interesting as a stage off a prologue the possibilities really are quiet endless for a winner and a leaders jersey winner.

 

[BigMac]

Re:

This could potentially be a good stage. Hopefully they race it hard.
Albasini for the win.

Very good pick.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Re: 2015 Tour de Suisse Stage 2 Risch-Rotkreuz - Risch-Rotkr

http://www.tourdesuisse.ch/en/live-ticker/ticker/

no liveticker?

 

[roundabout]

stage starts in 30 minutes approximately

 

[Flamin]

Re:

Sagan should be the favourite, but he will probably be second somehow. GVA to win

Way too hard for Greg. For Sagan as well I think although you never know with him.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Re:

stage starts in 30 minutes approximately

ok. in roadbook of tour de suisse it said 12:50. that is ct time? so confusing all the time

 

[Bushman]

Re: Re:

Sagan should be the favourite, but he will probably be second somehow. GVA to win

Way too hard for Greg. For Sagan as well I think although you never know with him.

Dont think the pace will be furious. I think guys like Sagan, GVA and Albasini probably will be there.

 

[Flamin]

Re: Re:

Sagan should be the favourite, but he will probably be second somehow. GVA to win

Way too hard for Greg. For Sagan as well I think although you never know with him.

Dont think the pace will be furious. I think guys like Sagan, GVA and Albasini probably will be there.

I expect serious attacks. It's hard enough, also because they race the climb twice in the final 40k.

 

[Netserk]

Definitely too hard for Greg. It's a bit similar to the T-A stage Poels won.